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International Law as an Interpretive Norm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Ingrid Brunk Wuerth*
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati College of Law

Abstract

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Type
Executive Power in Wartime
Copyright
Copyright © the American Society of International Law 2005

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References

1 12 U.S. 110 (1814).

2 317 U.S. 1 (1942).

3 124 S.Ct. 2633 (2004).

4 Id. at 2640-42.

5 Murray v. Schooner Charming Betsy, 6 U.S. (2 Cranch) 64, 118 (1804).

6 See Wuerth, Ingrid Brunk,Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon, 46 B.C. L. Rev . (forthcoming 2004).Google Scholar

7 Brief for Respondent at 15-16, 27-31, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 124 S.Ct. 2633 (2004) (No. 03-6696), available at 2004 WL 724020.

8 Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 316 F.3d 450, 475 (4th Cir. 2003), judgm't vacated by 124 S.Ct. 2633 (2004). Other examples include The Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1862), and New Orleans v. Steamship Co., 87 U.S. (20 Wall.) 387 (1874).

9 See Jinks, Derek &Sloss, David,Is the President Bound by the Geneva Conventions?, 90 Cornell L. R ev .97 (2004).Google Scholar

10 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, May 23, 1969, art. 31, 1155 U.N.T.S. 331, 340, 8 ILM 679, 691-92.

11 See Wuerth, Ingrid Brunk,The President's Power to Detain “Enemy Combatants,” Modem Lessons from Mr.Madison's Forgotten War, 98 N w . U. Law Rev . 1567, 1611-15 (2004).Google Scholar